Posts Tagged ‘Peter Sarsgaard’
Film Review – The Bride!
Bizarre, absurd, beautiful, tragic, and everything in between, The Bride! (2026) is an ambitious undertaking that re-imagines The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in a completely new light. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal takes a big departure from her last feature (The Lost Daughter (2021)) for a bigger and weirder project. This isn’t just…
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Film Review – The Survivor
On its surface, The Survivor (2021) looks like another underdog story about a boxer trying to make a name for themselves. In reality, it is a much deeper and profound examination of trauma, guilt, and humanity in the face of unspeakable evil. Director Barry Levinson and writer Justine Juel Gillmer (adapting Alan…
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Film Review – The Lie
The distribution deal between Blumhouse and Amazon Studios involves the streaming release of four thrillers in the month of October, labeled “Welcome to The Blumhouse.” The release schedule groups them into pairs. The first two feature the excellent Black Box (2020) and the not so…
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Film Review – Jackie
Jackie tells the story of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie) following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The film begins in 1963, one week after Jackie (Natalie Portman) and her children move out of the White House. A journalist (Billy Crudup) shows up…
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Film Review – The Magnificent Seven (2016)
I’m pretty sick of reboots and remakes and re-imaginings and re-quals. Just hire some writers, movie people! I hear they have ideas and stuff. Okay, whatever. Let’s talk about Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, which is a remake of the 1960 John Sturges film, which…
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Film Review – Lovelace
Linda Lovelace starred in perhaps the biggest porn movie ever, Deep Throat. The details of her life and what happened to her on- and off-set are less known, and while Lovelace wants to be an expose on these truths, it never knows how to make…
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Film Review – Blue Jasmine
It seems strange that Blue Jasmine marks the first collaboration between Cate Blanchett and Woody Allen. At first glance, they seem to fit stylistically. Hopefully she becomes one of Woody’s go-to actors, because what they provide is yet another interesting, engaging female character, one of…
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Film Review – Robot & Frank
It is not often that I’m really pleasantly surprised by a movie. Between receiving too much information from trailers and the fact that most films seem to be retelling the same story, it makes finding something different that much more exciting. Somehow the film Robot…
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